Got You Back by Fallon Jane

Author:Fallon, Jane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing
Published: 2008-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

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It was a weekend that ordinarily James would have dreaded. Stephanie had to be at work all day on Saturday, buying last-minute bits and pieces and making sure her three clients were happy with their manicures and pedicures and whatever else they needed to have done before a big occasion like the BAFTAs and then, of course, she would be out on the big day itself. James had agreed to stay until she returned once her clients were safely in their cars and off to the event, probably at about four o'clock.

He found, when he went to bed the night before, that he was actually looking forward to it. He could take Finn to the zoo — not just past it this time but actually inside. Finn, used to only ever seeing the wallabies and a few other random things that could be viewed for free from the park, would think all his Christmases had come at once. Or they could go on the Eye or maybe to the Tower. Or perhaps, James thought, it would be better to stay at home playing games on the computer or in the garden. Whatever Finn wanted to do.

He had got up early and made Stephanie tea and toast before she had to leave. From the look on her face when he gave it to her, it was obvious that this was an unexpected gesture. He tried to remember the last time he had made her breakfast and, of course, couldn't because it would have been a long time ago. A time when he had just had Stephanie in his life and no one else.

Finn had declared that the morning was to be spent cleaning out David's cage, then Goldie's tank and Sebastian's litter tray. The meticulous attention to detail that his son showed when he was caring for his animals reminded James of how he had been as a child. ‘You should become a vet,’ he said to Finn, as he laid new straw in the bottom of David's hutch.

‘That's what I'm going to do. Obviously,’ Finn replied, with a serious look on his face, and James had felt as if he'd stumbled on to the set of some kind of schmaltzy Children's Film Foundation film. He felt his eyes brim with tears and had to stop himself hugging his son and ruining the moment.

In the end they had gone to the zoo in the afternoon, with Finn exclaiming over everything from the pygmy shrews to the mountain gorillas and then had dropped in at the surgery in St John's Wood to pet the animals who were being kept in over the weekend. By the time Stephanie got home at about five thirty they were both lying exhausted on the sofa in front of the TV.

‘You have to do it all again tomorrow.’ Stephanie had laughed when she saw him.

They had had dinner and Stephanie had told them about her day and how Santana had still been in bed when the beauty

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